Example sentences for: slips

How can you use “slips” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In a handful of slips taken from the top of my stack, I found at least one clear-cut morox: Nevada is “much more sparsely populated” than eastern states, according to Robin MacNeil (MacNeil/Lehrer News Report, PBS, 29 May 1986).

  • The wily Odysseus slips Achilles some androstenedione, while Apollo stokes the Trojan defenders on creatine.

  • Only the first of its four words slips easily enough into English, as till . But English is the only European language I know that has no calque for the expression au revoir , probably because we have adopted this French phrase, like many others, intact, while other languages have the phrase calqued as: hasta la vista, a rivederci, do svidaniya, do widzenia, auf Wiedersehen, etc.

  • These slips were essentially due to the similarity of the initial letters or part of the word, like the typographical errors of similarity or familiarity cited above, but probably also due to the immense fatigue and exhaustion brought on by a presidential campaign.

  • At the far end of Paseo Ixtapa lies Marina Ixtapa, with fine restaurants, private yacht slips, and the Marina Ixtapa Golf Course.


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